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I did spend afternoons getting servers back online - it certainly beats praying to God for the restoration of your service in a timely manner.


I'll take "Google screwed up, it'll be up when it's up" over "I screwed up, I'm dropping everything and scrambling to fix it" any day of the week.

Also just to scope the discussion: I'm not talking about big, important things - those with ops budgets and rotas - I'm talking about small/low-budget/side-project type thing, like the OPs project.




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